From August 21-22, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Government of Japan conducted a successful tabletop exercise focused on enhancing maritime cybersecurity and incident response capabilities. This reflects the…
Researchers developed an easy-to-use tool that enables an AI practitioner to find data that suits the purpose of their model, which could improve accuracy and reduce bias. In order to train more…
The sheer scale of the breach and the way in which the data was first collected should be a national security wake-up call. National Public Data, a data broker branding itself as…
The feud between AI “doomers” and “ethicists” holds AI governance back. Advancing shared policy interests could shift the tide. As AI whistleblowers speak out, safety advocates depart leading machine learning companies, and tech execs warn about AI-enabled…
Iran’s sustained digital interference in U.S. elections now includes hack-and-leak tactics. Here’s how its strategy has evolved over time. On July 22, someone named “Robert” reached out to Politico to share internal…
The UN’s new cybercrime treaty is poised to become a vehicle for complicity in the global mercenary spy trade. On Aug. 8, the international community concluded its final negotiations at the United…
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They are neither effective nor desirable. In a recently announced rule effective May 9, the U.S. Department of Commerce added 37 Chinese entities to the Entity List, restricting them from acquiring items listed under…
A California court of appeal has eviscerated statutory privacy protections that prevent providers from disclosing the content of user communications. On July 23, the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth District…
U.S. intelligence officials said Monday they were confident that Iran was responsible for the hack of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, casting the cyber intrusion as part of a brazen and broader effort by…
-(1).jpg?sfvrsn=b5920d9b_5 "The Hacking of the Trump Campaign Is 2016 All Over Again")
How much is different from 2016, and will the institutions that stumbled then—the press, the intelligence community, and the campaigns—do any better this time around? It’s several months before a presidential election,…
